Tonative

Tonative is an AI company building language technologies for African and low-resource languages.

We design and deploy production-grade datasets and tools that enable speech recognition, translation, and language understanding across underrepresented languages, to support research, enterprises, and public-interest applications.

What we do

• Curate high-quality datasets for African and low-resource languages
• Build tools for speech, translation, and language understanding
• Partner with communities, researchers, and institutions to preserve and scale linguistic knowledge

Focus areas

• African languages & low-resource NLP
• Speech and text data curation
• Responsible and inclusive AI

Open collaboration

While Tonative operates as a company, we actively collaborate with:

• Language communities
• Researchers and research labs
• Open-source contributors
• Non-profits and public institutions

Citation

If you use our models or datasets, please cite the relevant repository or preprint.

Some assets here are fully open; others are released for research or applied use depending on scope.

Contact us: https://www.tonative.org/#contact-form